BLOCKAGE

No plumber to call
to break the lines loose
to free a year of rain

backed-up, flooding
the UK and Montana,
freezing East.

Helpless as town dogs,
we don’t know
how to fix anything

anymore. No time
to sit and pray,
to meditate the dry

away, or cry.
No other home
but red dirt hills

that never greened.
They don’t know
tomorrow’s zip code

nor do we—exactly
when, or how many
trucks to order.

One response to “BLOCKAGE

  1. This is a powerful poem. Sadness at what will come.

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